Adventures Of A Goblin

"kee-eeeee-arr!!!"

The bird kept circling above him like it's monitoring his movement and waiting for him to make a move.

He stood there hanging on the wall and not making a move but also monitoring the fire bird.

This is an opponent whose constitution matches the tone of this place,

This is basically its territory.

He needs to know what he is dealing with before doing anything.

Instigating a fight will not benefit him in any way.

he would actually prefer it If the bird can finish its circling and went on its way, but he knows faith is not that kind enough to give him such leeway.

He continues to watch the bird's movement with a silent approach.

He noticed that there was a change in the bird's actions,

it was circling above him, but now it has its wings clipped behind its back and its head stretched forward.

What the bird did, was take on a diving stance that allows for an increase in speed when it's aiming downwards.

He saw the bird diving towards him and immediately took action.

He rolled his body to the side and bashed the wall with his thorned hand,

He repeated this actions a few more times, and was able to avoid the bird's attack.

The bird who had dived past the Goblin, started to make its way back up.

The Goblin stood still and did nothing while the bird was making its way back for him.

When the bird had almost gotten to the Goblin, it was then that he activated his thorn erection skill.

He sprouted the thorn out from the wall beneath his feet.

The bird was quick to react on the thorn as it swings its wings and flew to the side to evade it.

"tch.."

The Goblin clicked his tongue in regret as his surprise attack failed.

He did manage to get a rough estimation on what kind of an opponent he is dealing with, so he wouldn't call the surprise attack a total waste.

The bird is an opponent blessed with speed,

how far its speed is?, he does not know.

What he does know is that the bird is faster than he is.

The set of information he needs next is how much power output it is capable of using.

Mere looking at its body, one would assume that it has less or no power output because it has no arms, meaning there was no way for it to punch.

Said thinking, is based only on assumption with no proof.

He saw how the bird had charged at him earlier,

the bird's plan was to use its entire body to smash him down into the wall.

Going with such thinking, it would not be so far fetched as to think that the bird relies on its whole body to deliver its own power output.

Taking a body blow from a monster that is three times his size will be very devastating for the Goblin even with his Meta Strength activated.

He assumed the bird must be confident in being able to put him down with just its body, seeing as how that is what it used as its first attack.

He activated his thorn erection skill and sprouted out multiple and very long thorns from the wall below his feet to use as a foothold.

He jumped down on the thorns and prepared himself to properly counter the bird next time it attacks.

The bird made no further movement and instead resumed its circling over the Goblin.

He thought of continuing his journey down but becomes wary that it might be what the bird is aiming for.

attacking him while he is distracted and his hands occupied with climbing down the wall.

He thought of using his thorn erection skill to make a stairway downwards like he had done with the one he is standing on,

But did not do it because of the amount of mana needed to carry it out.

In a situation like this, he has to save as much of his mana as he can.

Relying on his mana gathering will not be of help because although it works well during combat, the recoil once he is done battling is nothing to joke about.

"here it comes".

The bird had changed directions and was now heading towards the Goblin.

It was a direct confrontation with the Goblin staring at it face up.

The Goblin took on a throwing stance and started gathering mana in his hand.

When the hawk was within his range, he finished gathering the mana on his hand and used his self made skill Javelin Crater Explosion.

Seeing the incoming attack, the bird changes its tragectory and attemptes to go upwards, but the javelin crater explosion was faster than its reaction speed.

Before the bird could make its turn upwards, it had been hit or rather grazed at the side by the javelin.

It does not matter if the impact of the javelin was small or big, it will end up with the same result which is to explode into tiny pieces small enough to penetrate through its skin.

The javelin crater explosion did explode, but the Goblin was unable to see if it got the job done due to the smoke caused by the explosion blocking the view.

Regardless, the Goblin still prepared himself for any anomaly that might occur next.

The smoke slowly dissipated and the Goblin was now able to see more of the view.

The Goblin hastily jumped out of the way and used his thorn like hands to bash the wall to hold his fall.

It was a close call for the Goblin,

if he had not jumped away sooner he would have surely been crushed by the bird.

Proof of it is where he was standing before,

it has now been completely crushed by the bird's body blow making a crater in it.

The Goblin hanging on a thorn, produced another multiple long thorn below his feet to stand on.

The Goblin sprouted out thorns from the wall and traced it to the wall the hawk had landed in.

The bird regained itself and was about to fly away from the wall it had abruptly landed in but the Goblin wouldn't allow that.

The Goblin altered the shape of his hand like thorn to look more like a palm,

He jumped up and latched the palm unto the thorn and like that, he swung himself over to where the bird had landed on.

The bird was this close to making the distance between it and the wall when the Goblin who had already reached it jumped on its back.